Harry Brook blames smog in Kolkata for England team’s spin troubles

The England vice skipper Brook made 17 runs successful the lucifer connected Wednesday.

He praised Chakravarthy arsenic an “exceptionally bully bowler” up of the 2nd T20I successful Chennai. Chakravarthy was the prime of the Indian cricket team’s bowling attack, ending the nighttime with 3 wickets for 23 runs successful his 4 overs.

“With the smog the different night, it was a batch harder to pick. Hopefully the aerial is simply a spot clearer present and we tin spot the shot a spot easier,” Brook said astatine a property league connected Friday successful Chennai. India and England are slotted to play 5 T20Is.

ESPNCricinfo noted that backmost successful 1992-93, erstwhile England had visited India for a tour, their then-chairman of selectors, Ted Dexter, had attributed his team’s nonaccomplishment successful the archetypal Test astatine Eden Gardens, to smog.

The 25-year-old Brook did constituent fingers astatine his ain method arsenic well. “Facing rotation successful T20 cricket is astir apt the hardest happening successful the game, particularly due to the fact that I ever get retired trying to perfectly smack it. Maybe I’ve got to rein successful a small bit, but we’ll see.”

It indispensable beryllium noted that successful the archetypal T20I, India opted for 3 spinners, portion keeping ace pacer Mohammed Shami connected the bench. The rotation troika bowled 12 overs and conceded conscionable 67 runs astatine a complaint of 5.58, picking up 5 wickets betwixt them.